naive

adjective naiver · more naive · naivest · most naive · naïve · naiive

1. Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated. Whether by design or driven by the force of circumstances, they have always directed their main effort toward gaining the support of this "elite," while the more conservative groups have acted, as regularly but unsuccessfully, on a more naive view of mass democracy and have usually vainly tried dire
2. Not having been exposed to something. Animals entering shelters are either (a) immunologically naïve and susceptible to infection and development of disease if exposed to pathogens; (b) already immune […]
3. of art Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques. By 1921 when Miró painted his key work, naive painting had been recognized by the avantgarde art world as a genre in its own right.
4. Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem. We have experiments of running our matching algorithm and a naive matching algorithm for such a term tree and a tree, and have compared the performance of the two algorithms.

Similar: artless, callow, childlike, verdant, clueless, credulous, dewy-eyed, cute, fleeceable, foppotee, green, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, jejune, Panglossian, Panglossic, quaint, simple, simple-hearted, simple-minded, starry-eyed, unaffected, undesigning, unpretentious, unsophisticated, untested, unworldly, wide-eyed, immature · Opposite: affected, mature, nuanced, pretentious, sophisticated, wily, worldly

noun naives · naïve · naiive

1. A naive person; a greenhorn. As a seasoned woman—of nineteen—I felt it was my place to tell each of these naïves that such plans were easier made than followed.